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Rob Weiner Rob Weiner Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University
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Zachary Weiner

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James Welsch

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Member Bio Dr. Welsch has most recently served as Music Director & Symphonic Orchestra Conductor of Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras, Visiting Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra at The University of Central Florida and held the dual positions of Associate Conductor of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and Music Director and General Manager of the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras. In El Paso, he conducted the professional musicians in a variety of Live to Film, Pops and educational concerts, including Carnegie Hall’s Link Up program. Dr. Welsch is the founding Music Director/Principal Conductor of Orquesta Filarmónica Juvenil México-USA “The Bridge.” This binational youth program validates his belief in the universal power of symphonic music to create bonds among people in diverse communities. The initiative, which brings together talented musicians from Ciudad Juarez and El Paso for orchestral performances on both sides of the border, has been widely hailed by public media in Mexico and the United States and by professional musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma. Dr. Welsch is an experienced educator who is dedicated to the development of the whole student through the nurturing of each musician’s unique talent. Immediately after earning a Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Music there, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses; conducted orchestras and ensembles; was Music Director/Conductor for fully staged operas, and performed all faculty responsibilities, including student recruitment and committee work. He was honored as the Outstanding Music Faculty Member in 2008. With a commitment to broadening the experience of symphonic music for performing artists and audiences, Dr. Welsch has developed an extensive, eclectic conducting repertoire that includes not only the established canon, but also extraordinary works by under-represented composers. His focus on literature analysis, developed during his post-baccalaureate education, continues as he studies and shares with his orchestras and ensembles the works of the masters as well as those by new and overlooked composers. Dr. Welsch is an active guest conductor, adjudicator, master class teacher, and festival conductor. He has considerable experience composing and arranging music. Delighting in the collaborative experiences that his art affords, Dr. Welsch welcomes opportunities to work with others, whether for a session of score study, an impromptu ensemble where he plays French Horn, his principal instrument, or a public performance. He especially values the creative experience of working with and hosting guest artists and working with talented young musicians.
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Mr. John Welsh

Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia - Music Director (Retired), Vintage Band - Music Director
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Member Bio John Welsh recently completed his 18-year tenure as the Founding Music Director of the Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia in Washington State. Past Music Director positions include the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra, the Prince William Symphony, the Georgetown Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras in the metropolitan Washington, DC area. He has also served as the Associate Conductor of the Rainier Symphony in Seattle. Mr. Welsh has conducted the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the New World Symphony in Miami, the Festival International Echtenach Chamber Orchestra in Luxembourg, the San Miguel Philharmonic in Manila, Philippines, the Metropolitan Chamber Players at Lincoln Center, the Arlington Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony and the Shenandoah Music Festival Orchestra. He has also held residencies at Indiana University and was a lecturer at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Mr. Welsh holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano from Miami University (OH) and a Masters in Conducting from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. While serving as a Captain in the United States Air Force, he was assigned to the United States Air Force Band and Symphony in Washington DC and the Military Airlift Command Band in Illinois.
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Robert Wendel

Robert Wendel Music
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Caleb Wenzel

Grand Rapids Community College
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Member Bio Caleb Wenzel’s artistic life lives at the crossroads of performance disciplines and stylistic genres. Winner of the 2019 Respighi Prize in Conducting, Caleb's vibrant and infectious energy on the podium is equally at home with symphony orchestras, choral ensembles, experimental new music, historical instrument ensemble, opera, and musical theatre. With an active performance calendar that includes engagements as a conductor, pianist, composer, chamber musician, and music pedagogue, Caleb enjoys the rare profile of a complete musician. He currently serves as Director of Choral and Vocal Activities at Grand Rapids Community College. Committed to the music of living composers, Caleb serves as the Conducting Area Coordinator and as Principal Conductor of the American Creators Ensemble at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium at University of Oregon, a position he has held since 2016. He has guest conducted performances for the Chicago Latino Music Festival, American Bach Society, University of British Columbia Chamber Orchestra Festival, and Kammerphilharmonie Graz. In June 2019, Caleb made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting Chamber Orchestra of New York. He returns to CONY as the 2021/22 Apprentice Conductor, which will culminate in assisting CONY on their next recording project for NAXOS. A passionate music educator, Caleb has been involved in most major music education initiatives throughout Northern Indiana, serving as Music Director of the Elkhart County Youth Honors Orchestra and Conducting Fellow of the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra. As Director of Choirs at John Adams High School in South Bend, he supervised the School Corporation’s largest choral program. During his four-year tenure as Associate Conductor of Ensemble CONCEPT/21, he mentored young composers through EC/21’s New Voices in Michiana education initiative, often connecting student composers with some of the nation’s top professional composers and composition teachers. As a music education advocate, Caleb works to support music educators at all phases of professional experience in his role as Music Educators Program Director at the Conducting Institute of Caminos del Inka under the directorship of eminent conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. As a director of collegiate vocal ensembles, Caleb has made a substantial contribution to expanding the vibrant undergraduate vocal performance offerings at University of Notre Dame. There, he served as Music Director of Our Lady’s Consort, a highly selective undergraduate chamber choir, for three seasons. He also served as the founding Artistic Director of Gold & Blue Co., a vocal performance troupe performing a broad range of vocal genres including pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, musical theatre, reggaetón, and folk music. Caleb contributed to Notre Dame’s new Musical Theatre minor as a staff music director for mainstage productions and as the piloting director of the Musical Theatre Vocal Lab.
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Ruth Wheeler

California Baptist University
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Member Bio Hailed by her audiences as “An outstanding, inspiring and passionate musician”, Mrs. Wheeler is the Concertmaster of Corona Symphony Orchestra and Founder of the California Baptist University Symphony Orchestra. She is known by striving for excellence in all what she does, making a difference among her peers but mostly among her students helping them and mentoring them as young musicians. Teaching younger generations is one of her passions and she demonstrates it in every opportunity. Her mentorship and leadership are remarkable in the lives of her students. She is firm but kind; sharing life lessons with them knowing that the work she does now is for her students' future. Her credentials are impressive. Her studies include the Manual Carra Professional Music Conservatory, in Malaga, Spain, Superior Conservatory of Music of Malaga, California Baptist University, The Juilliard School, NYC (Summers 2011, 2013, 2015,2017), and The New York Conducting Institute- Summers 2017 and 2018. Mrs. Wheeler currently is the Assistant Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Director of the University Choir and Orchestra; as well as one of the Violin Instructors at California Baptist University.
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Mr. William White

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Member Bio William C. White is a conductor, composer, teacher, writer, and performer based in Seattle, WA. Equally known for his original music as for his bold interpretations, Mr. White is an innovative programmer and conscientious leader in the musical community. Mr. White currently serves as music director of Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers, a unique performing ensemble comprised of a chorus and orchestra that concertize as one. For four seasons (2011-15) he served as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, working closely with music director Louis Langrée and an array of guest artists, including John Adams, Philip Glass, Jennifer Higdon, and Itzhak Perlman. A noted pedagogue, he has led some of the nation’s finest youth orchestra programs, including Portland’s Metropolitan Youth Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. Mr. White has significant experience working with choirs and vocal soloists in a variety of contexts, from small a cappella ensembles to major symphonic and operatic choruses. He has long-standing associations with a number of musical organizations, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for whom he has regularly given pre-concert lectures since 2008. For three seasons, he was Music Director of Cincinnati’s Seven Hills Sinfonietta, a period which saw remarkable growth for the organization as a whole. Mr. White maintains a significant career as a composer of music for the concert stage, theater, cinema, church, radio, and film. His music has been performed throughout North America as well as in Asia and Europe. His output includes a symphony, an oratorio, chamber music of all varieties, and several works intended for young audiences. His music has been recorded on the MSR Classics and Cedille Record labels. Mr. White earned a masters degree in Conducting from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, studying symphonic and operatic repertoire with David Effron and Arthur Fagen. He received a BA in Music from the University of Chicago, where his principal teachers were the composer Easley Blackwood and the conductor Barbara Schubert. In 2004, he began attending the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors under the tutelage of Michael Jinbo, later serving as the school’s Conducting Associate, then as its Composer-in-Residence. Mr. White hails from Bethesda, MD, where he began his musical training as a violist. He is active as a clinician, arranger, and guest conductor, particularly of his own works. His orchestral arrangements, including “Happy”, “Dear Theodosia”, and an orchestral suite from Sweeney Todd have been performed by orchestras throughout the United States. In 2015, Mr. White launched a YouTube series called “Ask a Maestro” where he answers questions about the world of classical music. Recordings of his works can be heard at his web site, www.willcwhite.com, where he also maintains a blog and publishing business.
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Julie Whiting

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Member Bio Julie is a Brisbane-based conductor, vocal coach and musician. Since 2005 Julie has been highly sought after as a Musical Director, and has worked extensively across Southeast Queensland on seasons of more than seventy-five productions. She has been a pit musician for shows across Brisbane, Ipswich and the Gold Coast. Julie’s career highlights to-date include performing in the band for Dad’s Army with Jon English (2004), and in the orchestra for Sweeney Todd with Rob Guest (2007). In 2011, Julie was selected to attend the multiple-Tony® award-winning Goodspeed Musical Institute in the USA to study Music Direction. As a performer, Julie has appeared with many ensembles, including the Queensland Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony and the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra. Julie runs her own musical theatre company, Blue Fish Theatrical, which produced the widely-acclaimed Brisbane revival of Chicago in 2012. In that same year, she was nominated for a Greenroom Groundling Award for Outstanding Contribution to Queensland Theatre.
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Kyle Wiley Pickett

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Member Bio Kyle Wiley Pickett has established himself as a triple-threat music director: a talented and visionary musician who has earned the respect of players, soloists, boards, and audiences, a charismatic cultural leader in the communities he serves, and an ambitious fund-raiser with an impressive track record of orchestra building. In 2013, Kyle Wiley Pickett won two conductor searches in a row when he was selected as the new Music Director and Conductor for both the Topeka Symphony Orchestra (KS) and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MO). Since taking these two jobs, Pickett has led both orchestras in unprecedented growth: The SSO has broken its single ticket sales record every year for the last four years, and the TSO is in its second year in a row running a budget surplus. Pickett works extensively with marketing and outreach in both orchestras to develop creative and eye-catching marketing campaigns and season programming designed to raise the profile of the orchestras in the communities and attract new audiences to the concerts. From more conventional approaches like Rotary and TED Talks to television commercials in which Pickett waterskis, scuba dives, and scales the local climbing wall in his tuxedo, Pickett is always seeking to connect his community and the orchestra and to make sure the orchestra delivers outstanding and exciting concerts for its audiences.
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